Originally Posted By: jford
Also, with Kontakt instruments, you will find that the supported note range of playable sounds is not same as with a GM synth. Also, the mapping of sounds is not necessarily the same as the GM standard. That is why you sometimes get note dropouts. I've found some of the basses respond in a different octave than what BIAB outputs, so that has to be adjusted as well. I'm not being negative about Kontakt; it's just the realization that it's not plug and play.


Yes... generally a Kontakt sound is a sampled sound. So the note range of a given instrument in Kontakt corresponds with the actual playable range of the live instrument in most cases.

So yeah, if you have a part generated by BB or some other source including live midi.... and you have a Kontakt sample loaded.... if the source midi goes out of that instrument's range you will not hear those notes and assume it's dropping notes when in fact it's not. Load a violin sample and use a double bass midi source part.... you will see.

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